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Misconceiving
MISCONCE'IVING
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Definition 2024
misconceiving
misconceiving
English
Verb
misconceiving
- present participle of misconceive
Adjective
misconceiving (comparative more misconceiving, superlative most misconceiving)
- Having false ideas; misleading.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- through the helpe of his faire hornes on hight, / And misty dampe of misconceiuing night, / And eke through likenesse of his gotish beard, / He did the better counterfeite aright [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x: